MysterionMuffles

omg may I mass print this?! I would change "a short education" to the word introduction. "Conversely, it teaches them to avoid being seen when doing certain activities." Maybe change to: "it teaches them to avoid being caught 'misbehaving.'" "Shown to have poor school results and are more unmotivated." ; "Shown to have poor academic performance and lack of motivation." "Shown as adults physical to express aggression, physical abuse and an inclination towards criminal behavior." ; "Known to express aggression, physical abuse, and criminal behaviour as adults." Hope you consider my syntax corrections, but other than that, nice concision!

A good FDR friend of mine recommended this mind bending brilliance: It's about 8 individuals across the world who all share a telepathic connecion. What one will feel and experience, so will another, and they all have access to each other's skills and knowledge when desperate situations call them to action. For instance, Capheus is a bus driver in Kenya, and when a group of thugs beat him up and take his mother's AIDs medicine from him, without any prior fighting experience--across the world in Korea where Sun a business woman by day participates in an MMA fight, they develop a telepathic connection that allows her to inhabit Capheus' body in order to incapacitate the thugs single handedly. The action in this show is well coreopgraphed and all well an good, but as the Wachowski brothers are known for is their writing and directing. Those are also top notch! The action is all well and good, but what makes this show really hold its ground is how it can maintain 8 different narratives simutaneously and make them connect in interesting ways. And even if they weren't connecting, individuallly, each narrative is equally as hard hitting and heartfelt as the last. Each character has their own personal struggle that touches upon the themes of: families of choice, love and heartbreak, serving a crime lord in order to save a loved one, the death and loss of loved ones, and most of all, peronal integrity. I highly recommend this show to anyone who likes to question faucets of reality, love, and connection.

That! .......... Wow! Just epic win!

https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/42820-in-your-eyes-telepathic-empathy-romcom/?hl=%2Byour+%2Beyes Posted about it here already but yeah GREAT FILM! It's interesting that they break through their personal illusions while communicating in a way that in reality would be deemed as immense disillusion.

This is my plea for PC people to also remove the word "childish" from their vocabulary, if they are already so willing to remove racist words and derogatory terms for homosexuals from their daily speech. http://yourwritetolive.com/2015/09/24/stop-being-so-childish/

Why not? Especially if it was what he was inviting. Not saying you shouldn't not find it funny, just wondering.

https://www.facebook.com/TheBrizzler/videos/vb.203564229854448/399265726950963/?type=2&theater What do you guys think of this form of self deprication?

I don't know, the signs are always there. Though I do think despite of seeing them, the love hormones could make you rationalize otherwise. So it's not so much that we can be easily seduced to miss the signs as much as it is seeing the signs and actively choosing to ignore them.

A phenomenon I'm being reminded of lately is this idea of women not having any clue that the men they'd marry would later on become violent psychopaths. Countless of times I've heard women talk of other women they knew who had no idea they'd be physically abused on their wedding day or later on in the marriage. Is this avoidable with self knowledge and social awareness, or is it completely possible for a sociopathic man to be so well at his deceptions...that women literally have no idea that they'd be abused? If you can spot indicators of future abuse or dissatisfaction in the relationship, what would some red flags be? If you can't, and sociopaths are so good at deception, then how can women--or people in general--shield themselves from such deception? How can you trust anyone if it's true that some people can really fool you for a long long time and then do something that corrupts your entire perception of them?

Is it important for children not to swear. If so why or why not? Should they not be allowed to expirement with language and profane words, provided that they don't use them to demean other kids. I mean, there are a ton of so many other words and phrases that can hurt more than mere swear words, but what do you guys think?

Hmm before I proceed with my interpretation, I need to see if I'm on the right track. I'm guessing the cricket gangster might represent your father...was he ever noisy late at night and kept you from sleeping soundly? Or anybody/anything else? Any actual crickets keep you up at night? I didn't have recurring nightmares, but one dream that I won't get into here. I think they are meant to link certain times in your life by a common thread you may not see among them.

Ok so you've made a personal attack on everyone's integrity here, do you really expect to have a rational conversation from this point on?

http://yourwritetolive.com/2015/08/22/being-a-decent-human-being-is-hard-work/ After having said and done a few offensive things lately, I looked inside myself and fought every urge to self attack for digressing in my personal development, then wrote this from the heart.

Having a car alarm and those bars you put onto the steering wheel that stops them from turning if the criminal manages to hotwire the car. At that point they'd have broken in, but unable to get away with it if that bar (forgot what they were called) holds its place.

A man should curb his desires IF it is tempting to use force in order to get it. How he does this is by empathizing with the woman's right to self ownership he wants to or is about to rape. Though I barely imagine rapists have that split second of thinking "maybe I shouldn't," the capacity to delay gratification needs to be learned early on in life or before a certain breaking point before someone is just too far gone for redemption. Roosh's proposition is tackling the effect as opposed to tackling the cause: that being basic self knowledge and empathy for yourself and others. Especially potential rape victims. It goes back to preventiong being the best cure. People who have developed a decent amount of self knowledge/awareness/esteem/control would be very unlikely to rape or be a victim of rape. This discounting of course the offbeat chance of a virtuous person who does make good choices just so happens to get horribly unlucky and attacked at random. But since we're talking about adults voluntarily choosing to intoxicate themselves to the point of diminished control over choice and consequence--I stand by my main argument. Genders generalities omitted, people with the capacity to rape need to control those impulses just as much as potential rape victims need to learn how to avoid situations where they are likely to get raped.

Mmm...I agree that women are liable for who they choose to be drunk around, and I can see where he's coming from. But ultimately, I don't think that theory will be validated if ever put into practice. Legal or illegal is not the issue, it's people's personal integrity. The women's capacity to make proper judgement on how they spend their time and with who, and for men's capacity to curb their carnal desires is how both genders can mutually prevent a rape. A rape in the typical sense of course, just speaking in the generalization. I don't particularly like Roosh, I've read a couple of articles and find his misogyny distressing. But whoever wrote this article is loading it with emotional language and sarcasm that tries too hard to paint him as absolutely delusional evil. He's halfway there in that women should learn to be more responsible with substance use, but making rape legal is not going to teach them that. It's kind of like saying men should be taught not to rape by...well...making it legal?

here's an awesome article outlining why we're geniuses or can become geniuses from audio journaling: http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/people-talk-to-themselves/1105688/ It has more to do with talking to yourself out loud as opposed to audio journaling in particular, but this is helpful nonetheless.

here's another nice theory on it loved that article btw! gave me the chills and wanna rewatch with that perspective in mind.

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=04275379035169449476 As promised, there it is

This quick and concise book by Jeffrey Tucker has been helpful for me. It's called The Do's and Don'ts of Liberty. I can't find it anywhere online anymore so I'll try to upload it on a file hosting page later, when I'm not too busy. I don't know why it's not available anymore, it's been really really helpful for me in learning how to deliver the message of liberty that reduces the argumentation timeframe. This wouldn't be for him to read, rather you in learning how to deliver it better to those who are new to liberty, such as your friend.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2015/07/24/incident-sparks-debate-parenting-techniques/30651599/

Thank you EVERYBODY for your contributions. Allow me to respond to each of you individually Yes, yes, when I notice myself having to refer to guides or relying to hint systems in say a point and click game--I recognize and respect my irritation. Granted, there are times where I'm still having fun with the game, but am stumped, I will look up the answers whether online or through the in game hint system (which I spammed in Randal's Monday). But when I recogize I'm just resenting the game and feeling hopeless about it, I know when to quit. When it feels like I'm giving myself another chore, that's when I usually drop the game for a few days if not indefinitely. LOL nice finish there. Yeah, I often find myself thinking, "well it was fun while it lasted, but I really don't FEEL like playing/reading this anymore." A part of me still nags at me for not finishing them, but if it was a really good game or book that I just spent too much time away from, I respect that a part of me will feel naturally drawn to go back to it. Right! There was a time in my 75 days of writing where I got bored or frustrated with some games and realized that time I spent stressing was costing me time where I could have been writing. So I wrote instead. As linked in my OP, I managed to finish the 2nd draft of my novel because I knew when it was time to quit at certain games from either boredom, frustration, or my favourte; being immensely compelled by a story progression that it would be better if i wait til next time to play knowing that I'll be excited to. I'm struggling with that when it comes to this point and click adventure Broken Age. It's separated into two acts and the first one had reasonably challenging puzzles. They were logical and you could figure them out if you put enough thought in them. I maybe looked up for two or three solutions for other ones, and even then I felt like if I spent more time thinking instead of conceding, I would've figured them out. However, Act II apparently takes a 180 in terms of the storyline's power and the difficulty of puzzles get ramped up. I saw nothing but negative reviews for it on Steam, everyone saying how much they loved the first act and how the second one ruined it with weak writing and tedious and cryptic puzzles. That made me feel weary, but not even knowing that I GOT Act II automatically as part of a game update, I played far into it not knowing it WAS Act II. For the most part I think the writing is still as good as ever, I figured out even more puzzles myself this time around, thus contradicting what people said in reviews. BUT...then I reached one that everyone has struggled with and so have I. Even looking up guides I still don't understand it. A part of me wants to love this game to death and prove the Act II haters wrong, but it IS incredibly difficult further down the line. I'll get back to you on that conundrum. Despite of establishing my earlier statements, I still don't know if I wanna plough through this game or give up on it as well. I'm too curious about how it will all end because despite of reviews, I still think the writing is as good as ever. Yeah that's a good idea. There were many games I got during the sale that were thankfully really cheap, but I do not see myself committing to if I came back to them. From now on, I will consider people's reviews based on the hours they've clocked into it, and then watching gameplay videos to see if it's the kind of game I could be playing consistently. After the amount I spent, I feel like I could've saved 1/4 of what I spent had I not a bunch of small cheap games that I won't like vs some of the higher priced games (but thankfully discounted) that I'm still enjoying to this day. Yes, even the one I suggested that you didn't happen to like Hyperdimension has been the #1 game I will always fall back to among all the other ones I grabbed during that sale XD I don't even know why, especially since its art style embarasses me. That battle system I guess is too boss!

This is something I've been wondering about lately; do you always have to finish what you started? I have an over abundance of new games I bought off Steam during a huge summer sale last month, along with a few books I bought months ago, but still haven't gotten around reading. A part of me often feels guilty for wanting to move on to a new game or book when I'm not done one before moving on to the next. Like I won't get closure on a story, or certain information educational books can offer--but lately I've been taking the attitude of "I got the value I needed for the amount I paid, and even if I didn't complete it, it's okay to move on to something else. Nothing bad will happen. I'll just miss out on the rest, and that's okay since I lost interest." After my huge purchasing binge and sampling a few at a time, there's probably only 2 out of 20 that I've beaten the past month and I wonder if at this rate it was worth buying so many. Same thing with books, the synopsies and first pages I sampled of the ones I bought were great when I decided to buy them, but I also wonder if I could ever pick them up and find the same interest in them--and enough interest to complete reading or at least get far into. I wonder to what degree that attitude is healthy. I think, yes, you should be free to do as you please without having to force yourself, but at the same time, it's like if you never commit to anything to completion, what's the point? Isn't that kind of lazy? On top of that, I finally finished writing the 2nd draft of my novel, and that felt rivetting. To commit myself 75 days straight into completing it. With that amount of drive and committment, I feel a lot less inclined to HAVE TO complete things of lesser importance such as video games or fiction novels. What are your thoughts?

Yeah I'm gonna take a few months away from the novel and just enjoy going to work and my leisure time on my days off. When I get back to it, though, I'm gonna form a new writing critique group that can help me polish the 3rd draft and possibly get published by next year.

I wonder if anybody ever experienced something similar to these things? Just a few weeks ago, I had completed writing the second draft of my novel. With the help of a friend, we held each other accountable in engaging in our respective art fields, making sure the other worked on it every single day in a row. He worked on sketching and drawing something different everyday, while I had a more focussed end goal in completing my novel by writing 500-2000 words a day or at least plotting out the next chapter whenever I finished one. Needless to say, I had a ton of fun doing this. It took about 75 days to go from Chapter 14 to Chapter 27 and complete it. Some days I was on fire writing 1000-2000 words because the words kept flying, while other days I settled for only 500 and would not even get around writing until near the crack of dawn. But those days where I committed to doing even the minimal amount helped me keep the momentum going for the days it began to pick up again. I am very proud of my achievement, as I have never written a novel twice in a row and improved on it based on people's (valid and helpful) feedback. But during the week of my second last chapter, I ran into a problem; I didn't want it to end. Logically, I already knew that this wasn't the end. Sure it would be the end of the second draft, but it wasn't the end of my work with the book. There's still the matter of the 3rd draft, getting a new critique group, and obviously going out there and publishing it. A part of me clung to the comfortable routine I had developed for myself in those 75 days; sit around at a cafe all day, writing and chillin' with the baristas and other patrons, contact my friend and we show each other our work etc. I did not want that to end. But I knew it would once I completed my novel. That would mean I would have less reason to visit the cafe or talk to that friend. Key word is less reason, not a reason to cease that activity completely. In fact, 75 days is probably the longest I've gone talking to someone consistently everyday and that felt weird to me. In a good way of course. Anyways, I did a self RTR and I learned a few things as to why I might have resisted finishing the novel. I knew it was time to end it, there was nowhere else to go with the story, I resolved all the major subplots, wrote a pretty epic climax that had my friend at the edge of his seat waiting for the next page--but it had to end. Every single day, the habit of daily writing became so automatic that I had to do it before I can fall asleep at night. Whether I wrote during the day, evening, sometimes right before the crack of dawn, I couldn't NOT write. So to me it felt inevitable that I end it. Having grown up with a lot of procrastination and perfectionism, I think that giving myself the space to write half chapters that were only half decent in comparison to the ones written on good and motivated days--it was an F YOU to the perfectionism. And then the fact that I would take care of writing every single day it was an F YOU as well to procrastination. Finally, I have stopped putting things off in the fear that it may not be good enough for some imaginary standard. I wrote. I got it done. It was scary. I had become consistently productive. On top of that, I began playing big in the world. I was living out my purpose and engaging in my passion on a daily basis, seeing not only the value it gives me to work on, but also the value it may give to others once it's out there into the world. THAT is also scary as hell, for someone who has been used to not doing much with their life and never committing to anything greater than himself. There were days where real life drama occurred, disappointments were had, but at the end of the day...I found solace in writing and sometimes even transmuting those intense emotions appropriately to my character's situation. They were completely different from mine, but the emotions of frustration were all the same and they transformed beautifully, I think. That is what I think attributed to my completion anxiety earlier this month. Has anyone ever experienced anything similar or might have an alternate perspective as to how and why this occurred to me based on their experience?